Tag: Spencer J. Quinn

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Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But since it was written in 1925, when Communism was quite vigorous, Bulgakov got cancelled, and the book had to wait until 1987 to see the light of day. (more…)

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The idea of the personal journey being self-documented on film is not new. Ross McEllwe’s autobiographical 1986 documentary Sherman’s March is a great example. McEllwe initially wanted to document the impacts of William Sherman’s campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War, but ended up making a film about all the women in his life and why he cannot find romantic stability. A clever idea, and quite poignant in its execution. (more…)

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In order for white Europeans to finally escape the hole they have dug for themselves, they must reevaluate the Second World War. This was the war in which Europe was conquered by the forces of liberal democracy coming from the west, and the forces of communism coming from east—two sides of the same globalist coin. (more…)

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When given enough time to reflect, one can easily enough unravel most forms of sophistry. The very point of sophistry is to use false argumentation to deceive or manipulate the listener in real time, when they don’t have time to reflect and when they don’t have data at their fingertips. (more…)

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Mark Dice
The Liberal Media Industrial Complex
The Resistance Manifesto, 2019

Fellow travelers on the Right should be cherished. They may have inexplicable beliefs or regrettable habits, but that’s okay. If they’re willing to tolerate you, then that tolerance should be reciprocated and appreciated. (more…)

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Robert B. Stinnett
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
Free Press, 1999

You know how Copernicus began his study of the heavenly bodies not to refute Ptolemy’s geocentric paradigm, but to restore it? The reference might seem like it’s from left field, but it perfectly suits what Robert Stinnett was trying to do with his 1999 work, Day of Deceit. (more…)

Minnesota Representative Leigh Finke (Photo from Wikipedia Commons)

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The classic question to ask a leftist true believer is “How much progress is too much progress?” In other words, at what point would today’s radical iconoclast turn into tomorrow’s stodgy reactionary? While important regarding the nature of today’s politics, this question is essentially beside the point, since whoever would answer it honestly likely has little control over the ebbs and flows of history. (more…)

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It’s high praise indeed when a documentary calls the least possible attention to itself and still conveys the maximum emotional impact to its viewers. Of course, it helps when the subject matter is both riveting and timely. We have both and then some in Liz Collin and J. C. Chaix’s documentary The Fall of Minneapolis (also reviewed for Counter-Currents by Morris van de Camp). (more…)

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President Donald Trump is the avatar of white America — its embodiment — and any attack on him is an attack on the historic American nation. The only way that this ends without an explosion of political violence and a second civil war is if Trump survives the campaign and goes on to win the upcoming election against the most corrupt system in the history of modernity. (more…)

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By the time you read this, just about every angle surrounding Saturday’s failed assassination of Donald Trump will have been covered. How is Trump doing? Who was the shooter? (more…)

Smedley Butler in 1929. (Image source: US Marine Corps)

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When I look back on all of America’s wars, sometimes I wonder how many of them were justified. By entering a certain war, did America’s leaders truly have the welfare of the people in mind? Or were they more concerned about their own power and enrichment? I certainly don’t have the historical chops to exhaustively break down every war the United States has ever fought, but if there is one thing the dissident Right has taught me these past few years, it’s that when the government tells you it’s time for war, hold on to your wallet — because you’re likely to get fleeced. (more…)

Image from Shawn Braley, Valley News

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About a year and a half ago, an associate professor at a European university reached out to me over Facebook. He politely invited me to an interview. This is what he wrote (links added):

I am working on an academic project about novels, novellas and short stories published by Counter-Currents Publishing and Arktos Media. (more…)

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Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations begin to decline.

For the last 60 years, one such myth is that of Kitty Genovese.

Thanks to the New York Times reporting of her grisly 1964 murder in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens — during which 38 people supposedly watched and did nothing while she was stabbed to death — her name has become synonymous with bystander apathy. (more…)